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Each year, on February 2nd, people in the United States and Canada celebrate Groundhog’s day. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when the groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter-like weather will soon end. If it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its…

Hippotherapy can be included in a speech therapy session as a treatment tool while addressing a wide variety of speech and language goals (see my blog on Hippotherapy as a Speech Therapy Treatment Strategy). Including hippotherapy in treatment engages sensory, neuromotor and cognitive systems and can help to promote functional outcomes. Here are a few ways how a therapist may…

Speech and language development is not just about what occurs in the mouth. Organization and integration of the sensory systems and core strength, trunk control and breath support are important parts of speech and language development. The ability to register speech and language, attend to it, and process it is all related to these systems working. It is no coincidence…

Sometimes when reading information or when speaking to professionals (both therapists and instructors) related to therapy services and recreational activities that include equines, I am shocked to hear how often inaccurate terminology is used when talking about things like hippotherapy and adaptive riding! For example, terms like “horse therapy”, “horseback therapy”, “therapeutic riding”. Is it therapy or not? I often…

Speech and Language home practice does not have to seem like a chore! Try these free or almost free fun ideas for winter speech and language home practice. Your kids will have so much fun that they won’t even realize that they are working on their speech and language goals! Build a Snowman: You can help your child work on…